Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

-hice-straw shoes are worn by the
iaborlng people in the south of China.
In an area of log. 1O3 square miles
In the Northwestern provinces of India
the are said to be A, 600, 900 Hindoos.
Inc average age of European girls
"nen they marry, according to Ger
man statistician, is twentv-six wears.
while that of the men is twenty-eipht
years.
-ihe number of applications in En-
gland Tor patents last year amounted
10 iI,IoZ-an increase over 1884 of So,
and 1885 of LOCI.
-Iwenty-one priests live in the
buddhist cloister of Hanie, Thibet.
where the altitude is sixteen thousand
feet above the level of the sea. It's
the highest inhabitable spot known.
The Duke of Orleans. horn Of
Iwlckenham on the 9th of February.
1869, is now eighteen years old, the
age at which French sovereigns dis
pense with regency. He has, there
lore attained his political majority.
The two copies of the Bible used at
Queen Victoria's coronation are still IN
existence. One is an heirloom in the
family OF the late DR.. Sumner, Bishop
OF Winchester and the other is pre-
served in the Cathedral of Norwich
"A we'll at Yakutsk, Siberia. has
been estimated to be frozen at a depth
OF SIX hundred and twelve feet As ex-
ternal cold could not freeze the earth
to such depth. even in Siberia, geolo-
glsts have concluded that the well has
penetrated frozen formation of the
glacial period which has never thawed
out.
Miss Allcard, of London, entered
convent twenty years ago and gave to
the sisterhood her property which was
worth $4,000. Becoming dissatisfied
with the rigorous penances inflicted on
her during thirteen years she left the
convent and brought suit for restitu-
ton of part of the money. The suit
has been decided against her.
The Chinese cash is worth one
tenth of a cent; the Assamese sapek,
not more than one-twentieth of cent
a person in Tonquin who desire to
carry into the interior two dollars to
three dollars in native money finds
himself burdened with forty or fifty
pounds avoirdupois of metal that seems
no more valuable than SO much lead.
Several English life insurance COM
panies have instituted section for alb
stainers only, with the result that the
bonus to the teetotalers has been con-
siderably larger than that to the gen.
eral section. The Blue Ribbon Com
pany, however, has been established to
secure abstainers the whole of the pc
cuniary benefits accruing from habits
of temperance. This society has just
issued its third annual report A divi-
dend of five per cent. has been de-
clared. The directors report that the
number of policies discontinued,
through the insured ceasing to be total
abstainers, has been but trifling.
While the steamer Mongkeet was
taking rice at Bangkok a coolie. after
q d:y's work, took smoke of opium,
and then crawled under beam in the
hold. Then he fell into stupor, was
not discovered, and the hold was filed
and the hatch closed. Ten days after,
at Hong Kong. he was found, and
when taken to the upper air at once re-
rived, and soon was apparently we'll.
He had been unconscious during the
ten days, and it is thought that the
moist heat from the rice had kept his
body warm, and the clammy air in the
hold brought him into a comatose con-
dition, from which he awoke only when
fresh air was admitted.